Choosing a Forum Name & Domain

[David]

When choosing a forum name & domain, do you prefer to choose something related, ie. have a keyword related to your site, or do you prefer something unique and "out there", ie. no words related to your site at all? Explain 🙂

 

[22_22]

I usually try and make them unique but it's so hard with all them forums out there. My co-founder came up with a good one though. 🙂

 

[MissTake]

:lol: I only ever owned one forum and to come up it's name I asked my then 5 year old grandson what we should call it...his first word was mad dog......so I never even had to think about it. 🙂

 

[David]

Interesting concepts.

I think if I were to choose a domain, I would have it "out there" so if I didn't like it after a while, someone else could turn it into something different.

 

[dan213]

I do some of both. With my promotion site (Promotion Venue) I made it relevant while my general discussion forum is Aythr which stands for AnYTHing Random. I sometimes take letters from a bigger word and try to mix them up to make a domain name.

 

[Joe 2]

I like to have a keyword in my domain. I like being able to look at a domain and get an idea of what the forum, website or blog may be about based on what the keyword is. That's what I do and have done for my upcoming website. 🙂

 

[Nebulous]

My forums name was random.. Just a word that popped into my head.

Forum Advertiser was well about forum advertising so yeah...
The Island was a theme I was going for as relaxation and fun pops into my head when I think of islands. 😛

Strange that the one with the random name has been my fastest growing / most active forum yet. FA had large stats but it took a couple years to get there.

 

[Ascent]

Strange that the one with the random name has been my fastest growing / most active forum yet. FA had large stats but it took a couple years to get there.

It's not really strange when you already had an established userbase.

 

[Nebulous]

Not everyone there is from the original userbase of my original forums.

 

[David]

Not everyone there is from the original userbase of my original forums.

It wasn't mainly because of an established userbase, it was more of a reputation among this forum and possibly a few others.

 

[kasem]

I usually try and make them unique but it's so hard with all them forums out there. My co-founder came up with a good one though. 🙂

Thats me. 😛

 

[StripesAndFins]

Depends on the forum, if it is a general discussion forum, i would make it random and unique